yeah.....thats what I figured!
Thanks for the verification!
Have a good one,
Cleve


At 03:25 PM 11/16/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Challison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>About all you can count on is that such things live under /etc.
>
> > I think I just answered my own question:
> >
> > hardlinked files to a single specific inode ARE the same
> > file......reference is to the inode (the actual file).  As long as any
> > single filename associated with a specific inode exist then that file
> > exists and is useable.
> >
> > symlinked files refer one filename to another filename......reference
> > is a filename.  In this case, there is an actual original
> > file....deleting the file pointed to makes the symlinked file useless.
> >
> >
> > In both situations, I can edit any of the hardlinked files or
> > symlinked files and still be editing all the relative files at the
> > same time....I am, in effect, only editing a single file.
> >
> >
> > So, provided I have this correct, it was very eductional but did not
> > necessarily answer my original query.
> >
> > Is there a single best place to edit network related files on any
> > distribution of linux, that will allow me to be assured that the files
> > I am looking for will be there?
> > I guess I mean a standard directory (under /etc ?) that I can go to
> > regardless of distribution, to edit these files......and if anyone has
> > a quick list of those filename then that would be helpful.........
> >
> > I'm expecting to hear that on LSB compliant distros then you can go
> > here, on gentoo, bsd and maybe slack you can go here and on RH and MDK
> > you go here.
> >
> > The whole reason I'm going here is because I do a bit of non-official
> > support on RH7.2, RH7.3 on a couple of servers in our data
> > center......direct and total support of some kind of *BSD as part of
> > our F5 BigIP load balancing devices, and now I am directly in the
> > middle of setting up a RH 8 utility server to run OpenNMS, Rancid, and
> > some TACACS+ package that I have yet to choose.  About to get really
> > knee deep and can't wait.  BTW, yesterday I finally got my Cisco 3005
> > VPN configured so that I could use the Cisco vpn client for linux
> > (4.0.3.B) to create an ipsec tunnel through into our
> > network..........can I tell ya? Its SWEET!!!!!!!  I'm pretty pumped
> > about it too, if you could already tell!!!
> >
> > Cleve
> >
> >
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